With Boot to Gecko, carriers would have an open operating system, based on an open browser and framework, with a truly open Marketplace. Carriers could create their own Open Web Marketplace and populate it with their own apps, and create their own rules. They could brand the OS and load it up with as much or as little bloatware as they like. With B2G, carriers would once again be in control.

That’s just a tiny, very-zoomed-in glimpse of the future, though. The bigger picture is even more exciting. Basically, B2G is just a cut-down version of Linux that automatically loads Gecko, the rendering engine behind Firefox; in essence, it’s like a simplified version of Chrome OS.

With the popularity of Android and now the mention of Android on desktop, do we need another similar app really? Android is now fully mature and yes, its a Google product with all the question mark, point is acceptance is the biggest factor in survival today than ever before.

With the popularity of Android and now the mention of Android on desktop, do we need another similar app really? Android is now fully mature and yes, its a Google product with all the question mark, point is acceptance is the biggest factor in survival today than ever before.

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Well, Mozilla maybe hoping there's a "market" for those allergic to anything Google. There's a lot of that going around though I wonder about the "default" search engine.

Telefonica building web-centric OS with Mozilla
"Mozilla has announced that it is partnering with Telefonica to build a web-standards-based mobile operating system. The Open Web Devices (OWD) platform will be based on Mozilla's Boot2Gecko (B2G) project, which the non-profit announced last year.
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Development of Boot2Gecko is being supported by Adobe and Qualcomm. Earlier reports that Deutsche Telekom is joining the B2G effort were also confirmed, with the German telecommunications provider dedicating development resources to the mobile operating system. "

... Now the big risks to our mission, in a mobile environment, are users getting locked into silos. You don't really own your apps — your Android account owns your apps. You can't go home and pull out your iPad or go to your PC and access them.

... we took the next step and said, "Wow, we have all these components. What would happen if we directly connected this stuff up to the hardware?" It turned out Telefonica had been doing something similar for even longer. I think they've been working on their stuff from sometime earlier in 2011. So when they were already working on it too and when they read about our project, we joined forces pretty quickly.

... One of the cool things about it is how it unifies app and web security models. For example, on the web today, Google Maps requests your location, and you say, "Yes, no, never, always." That happens kind of just-in-time, proportional to what you're doing. ...

But if you contrast that with a mobile app today, especially Android, let's say you want to install a single-player chess app, and the app says, "We want to access your phonebook, your SMS, your location, your dialler", and it's like, whoa. ...

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The walled-garden deniers can also deny the "getting locked into silos".